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jerking alone, are not snfficient to set against similaritj- of strnctnre. Aidemosync is
an intermediate group, tending to link the Grass-finches and Astrilds, but more
nearly approaching the former than the latter. If the Silver-bills looked np to
heaven to ntter their shrill song, I should unhesitatingly declare that they were
aberrant Wax-bills ; but the)-do nothing of the kind, therefore they must be regarded
as aberrant Grass-finches : thus far Dr. Rnss is correct ; onl)-, in my judgment, he
ought also to have added the Cherry Finch and Bicheno's Finch to the same group.
I am also inclined to think that Pytdia and allies are Grass-finches rather than
Astrilds.
Illustration from living examples and skins in the author's collection.
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